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Comment · 3 years ago
Whilst historically those publications enjoy such a reputation you can find a body important retractions and delayed retractions in both journals. The Spectator magazine of 12th of August this year has some recent specifics. Titles used to almost regularly pass through phases of better and worse administration it doesn't mean that the name is ruined when things go wrong, but the purpose of publication has never been to establish unassailable truths something that I am sure that every editor concurs with for legal practical moral and social reasons.
Comment · 3 years ago
Re: numberplates

Foreign licensed vehicles can operate and drive in the UK for up to 30 days without applying to the DVLA (DMV) for UK registration.

However the UK government has never subscribed to any of the available EU crime and general population administration data sources which has always left the UK vulnerable to overseas criminal activities concentrating here because there's obviously no reciprocating return of information to the continental authorities either and so the UK has become the best place to let the law slip if you're up to no good in Europe.

Edit: slip not slop

Comment · 3 years ago
I was shocked the other day by seeing a physical travelcard ticket for Zones 1-9 and having to confirm from a Tube station map that a Zone 9 actually exists. This is four more than I could remember.
Comment · 3 years ago
As far as I can recall the population of the UK has hovered around 55 million since the early 80s at least, but this number doesn't seem to make sense to me. I'm reminded of a March 2020 London Evening Standard headline saying that half of the adult population of the UK had been vaccinated and the headline gave 55 million people as the total for that number, which gave me pause for thought.
Comment · 3 years ago
If these entities have a legitimate grievance with you such as passing off fake branded goods or a willful interference with a private exclusive licensing agreement for product resale (tortious interference with a third party contract, common law breach of design rights through passing off which is two torts and obviously the inevitable harm to the revenues expected from that agreement which was never open to you) they can just serve the DMCA notices on your upstream provider and enforce effective disconnections of your storefront.

This statutory and perfunctory hence effectively attorney free process would have relieved the beleaguered BIOS developer's concerns discussed here the other day and this is a and usually effective right of protection that's rare in its accessibility to the common man instead of the largest businesses.

Comment · 3 years ago
>Humans are highly adaptable and like other changes to information availability in the past they will adapt. This is what societal norms and cultural memes are for. “Don’t believe everything you hear” “Don’t believe what you see on TV” “if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.” These are all ways that the human species uses memes and cultural norms to teach ourselves how not to fall victim to false information.

But who is parsing all the reciprocal new false and fallacios "truths" in this wonderful human way to sanitise the inputs to the next model that's evaluated? If humans could scale so easily there wouldn't be this problem in the first place.

Comment · 3 years ago
The USA is a signatory to the Madrid Treaty Protocol governing international intellectual property rights, but never bothered to ratify it. What might a different country who has bothered to ratify the treaty and been subjected to litigation and trade enbargos at the behest of America maybe think about the behavioral example? There's just one example of a international famous trademark enforcement against American interests which is Societé Des Bains De Mer, the owners of the Monte Carlo Casino in Monaco in the 9th District in 2001. Just that solitary case of reciprocal enforcement.
Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
Case law, at least in England and Wales, is on the side of whoever makes something out of disused or dormant designs and patents. The equitable ruling will always be made in favour of the technical infringer paying a reasonable royalty provided that use and application does not harm the rights owner.
Comment · 3 years ago
Book value accounting only works if you have matching regulatory or matching duration capital for the original loan.

Mortgage banks drove the UK bankrupt cap in hand to the IMF in 73 with far far less of a rates delta than is happening now.

Edit : there was a similar breakdown of society as is happening already today almost everywhere , back in 73 in the UK. The main difference is that the banks managed to put much more of the pain onto the common man since then.

Comment · 3 years ago
The second comment recounting a apparently total recall like memory of being a ten year old boy in 1977 is fascinating. Not least because of the detail about purchasing a white loaf and butter for two pounds British. That's today's money costs. A loaf of bread in 77 cost you thruppence or 4 new pennies if your regional banks had caught up with decimalization recoinage and everyone rounds up on these occasions see the Teuro when the standard 3DM loaf of bread suddenly cost you 3 Euro the next day. Rgds jm2
Comment · 3 years ago
Several comments have mentioned that culling cats in response to covid didn't happen but I had reason to walk the streets of London in the relevant years and I have only just begun seeing mostly very young domestic cats around the town in recent months. Like pretty much everything Boris Johnson claimed he has said, I have a very strong suspicion the culling of domestic cats did happen in London England. That, or COVID-22 is lethal to all living things. I'm going with both those statements being true on the evidence I've seen.

Edit : red: " covid lethal to all living things " the insect population of the city of London vanished towards the end of the official pandemic measures. Maybe the job was considered done because only this January the most lethal covid variant was culling infants and young children in Japan killing in under two weeks through multiple organ failure and the day after NKK broke the story Rishi Sunak the prime minister of the UK ordered air routes to and from Japan to be fully opened up from lockdown rules completely without any review.

Comment · 3 years ago
I have memory of the definition of a stray dog being one unaccompanied by its owner, at least in the UK, in the legislation that introduced dog licenses.

That requirement for a licence but not the actual legislation was withdrawn meaning that definition of a stray I just gave will be the law if I recall correctly.

After the passing of a amendment to remove the mandatory dog licence then began this present era of human killing violent and uncontrollable breeds that kills innocents in the UK on a daily basis.

I want to see this definition enforced to control professional untrained and incapable in any case dog walkers who parade with entirely patently pack behaviour animated hounds around our streets and parks.

Besides fouling our byways and recreation grounds on a industrial scale concomitant with the damage to human health that entails, this is unlawful menacing of the public and private unlicensed enterprise founded on the breach of the law and hence must be eradicated.

To my horror I'm recently seeing pirate dog walkers inside the old City of London aka the square mile our beautiful and peaceful financial district where you will stay for weeks without ever seeing a law enforcement officer because we don't need them to intervene in anything because civilian life carries on peacefully regardless just as I well remember it always did almost everywhere just a few decades ago.

Comment · 3 years ago
> female cats can become pregnant at 4-6 months old already, and they have on average 16 kittens a year in multiple litters).

This totally was not true in my living memory of fifty years.

Edit : like this is totally news to me which frightens me knowing that could really mean that we've passed a irreparable inflection point in a number of the most stabilized metabolic endocrine and hormonal management systems that have taken the entirety of history to develop into sustainable life.

Is systemic oestrogen poisoning to blame?

Or has there been effective speciation as a consequence already, which might demand humane euthanasia?

From https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8300725/ :

"Estrogens occurring in the environment can negatively affect the organisms, such as animals, through phenomena such as feminization, dysregulation of natural processes related to reproduction[...]

Edit :

IF what you are saying is true then de facto there's been speciation because there's no way for prior variants of this animal to co exist socially or biologically in any compatible lifespan and neither could the cats I thought existed exist in any shared habitat for reasons of disease and competition. The only possible conclusion is that the very design for life on the planet earth is already proven to be being erased before our very eyes.

Comment · 3 years ago
>Can't you see how bad it for Kenya - or anywhere - for people bright enough to write college level essays to be wasting their time writing them for rich people studying in Western colleges?

OR is it because this phenomenon is proof that the ability to write winning college degree level essays and dissertations and the accumulation of a industrial scale workforce of talent able to create such works over multiple sophisticated subject areas and subjects, has no benefits for a actual economy and can only persist as a activity if supported by a highly distorted systematic foreign reward arbitrage?

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